Massive Body Loss (website)
This website is an open-access data-visualization project documenting events that caused massive body loss in and around Turkey in the last century.
This website is an open-access data-visualization project documenting events that caused massive body loss in and around Turkey in the last century.
Full text of Tamar Novick’s Milk and Honey, a environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Palestine/Israel.
The Indian government’s support for hybrid rice led to widescale deforestation in central India, disrupting Indigenous foodways based around the production and consumption of millets.
Peat was a widely used fuel in mid-nineteenth-century Berlin that acted as a bridge in the energy transition between firewood and coal.
In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.
Martin Saxer introduces his project “Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism” detailing how his team works and what foraging means to them.
In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
Chapters from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe’s battery.